Reprtoir Changelog

Category: Reprtoir Platform

Playlist analytics data is something many of our users have been asking for and we have finally added them to Reprtoir accounts.

Everytime a contact interacts with a playlist, here is the data we are pulling in:

Views

This amounts to the number of times your contact has accessed your playlist’s page

Streams

We report back the number of streams that each track inside the playlist has made

Downloads

Every time a track within the playlist is downloaded, you’ll know about it

Timelines

Users will be able to view when any of the interactions cited above have taken place easily on a flexible timeline

Users will have all of this data displayed for each track within their playlists. This will give them powerful insights on how their contacts are interacting with their playlists, as well as how their tracks are performing when shared with external partners.

Essentially, Record Labels are a new entity representing master right owners that tracks can be associated to. For instance, if you are managing a label, you can associate your artists’ recordings to a given Record Label you have created.

Metadata tabs:

We’ve restructured metadata information found in most of your assets such as albums, tracks, artists, etc. to make things more coherent.

The Metadata Collector has undergone a big upgrade. Here are its highlights:

All data fetched by the Metadata Collector is now found within the Collector tab.

The Metadata Collector of Tracks now gives users access to two different sub-tabs: one tab called “Metadata” contains the Spotify metadata of the track and another tab called “Audio Analysis" contains the track’s audio characteristics.

We are also fetching more data than before from Spotify for your albums, tracks, artists, etc.

Last but not least, we’ve improved the fetching of the data: on one hand data is fetched every single day now allowing for daily updates, and on the other hand, when your assets are modified (for instance if you change an artist name), we go fetch data immediately according to the modifications brought to the asset.

New panes:

We have added panes for Writers, Publishers, Record Labels, Contacts and Companies.

The metadata relevant to these assets will now be found inside of these panes.

Our last changelog was about redesigning the platform and this update goes along those same lines. This time we actually went even deeper in the remodeling of the interface by modifying and improving tons of little (and some not so little) things here and there.Because there is quite a lot of ground to cover, and because all of these changes have already been loaded to your Reprtoir account, we will just give a brief description of the most significant changes brought to your account.Here goes:Edit sidebar:

We have deleted the mass edit feature when multiple resources are selected. Any type of resource editing now happens in a unique Edit selection sidebar.

We have also improved how users can assign tags and resources to multiple resources selected simultaneously. To accomplish this, we’ve added innovative Add and Remove tools that allow you to manage resource tagging in any way you see fit.

When editing a resource, one can now create any resource directly from the resource forms in the Edit selection sidebar without having to open up that resource’s creation panel. Instead, resources are created on the spot. Sorry for making this sound complicated. In other words, we have greatly improved how resources are created when editing resources.

Redesign:

The Edit sidebar is now more compact, allows better navigation and is generally better integrated to the interface than before. At least we hope you think so!

The resource creation panel has now been replaced by an overlapping resource creation sidebar. Before, when you created a new album, playlist, artist, or any other type of resource, you would have a bulky ugly panel open on the right pushing and compacting the rest of your interface on the left. We have now fixed that by making a unique resource creation sidebar for every resource.

The column templates hamburger has now been placed more conveniently on the right of the list’s search engine.

Now, from within lists, users can directly click on resources to open them up. For instance, from the Album List, all album names are blue links that open up their respective album panels when you click on them.

Action icons associated to resources from within lists now only appear when you hover over these resource’s respective lines. This makes your interface cleaner and less cluttered.

Filters:

We’ve moved your filters on the left of your List Section. Instead of having to expand them like before, now your filters are displayed at all times. We believe this will make the filtering experience more convenient.

Playlists:

You can now edit multiple playlist shares at once.

You now have the possibility to add tracks to playlists directly by right-clicking on track from the Tracks’ list and choosing “Add tracks to playlists”.

That’s about it for today. A lot to take in. Many of these changes are not that apparent but make a big difference in how you will manage your metadata.We hope they make your lives easier.

These past weeks we spent some time redesigning various aspects of your Reprtoir account with the aim of simplifying the user interface and making things clearer. Many little design tweaks have been made here and there. Here are the most prominent ones:

The Create New button in the left sidebar Navigation menu is no more. Instead we have added the buttons allowing you to create your albums, tracks, playlists etc. directly from inside their respective lists.

In every panel and list you will find Actions buttons that, upon clicking on them, will display a dropdown menu featuring actions you can initiate on a selection.

Now users can create playlists of tracks and share them with people outside of their Reprtoir accounts. This feature allows them to pitch and present selections of recordings to external partners quickly and efficiently.Playlists are shared via online landing pages that Reprtoir generates and that users send out to their contacts through emails and links. This makes sharing music, sending catalog and pitching tracks extra simple and effortless.Here is an article we wrote that explains how all of this works:

We decided to redesign our filters section to make it more versatile. The changes we just implemented may seem like small adjustments, but in reality they are game changing.Here is what filters looked like before:And here is what they look like now:So what does this mean?Before we would display every single category of content and tags in the filters section whereas now the users construct their own sets of filters.This gives way to two major improvements:

Users will have much more flexibility when filtering their content and finding what they are looking for in their catalogs.

The filters section is not clogged up with tons of unused filters.

The new filters section works by adding the filters you need one after another. Here is an article we wrote that explains how all of this works:How filtering works in Reprtoir

We have finalised the foundations of our Metadata Collector: a component that automatically enriches your content by curating metadata found online. We encourage your to read this article to have an understanding of what the Metadata Collector is and does:

Reprtoir’s interface has undergone many design revisions these past weeks. After numerous trails and errors, we have applied what we believe was necessary to make the user interface more user-friendly. I am not going to go into any details regarding what was modified. Some things and quite apparent while others are not so flagrant, but a lot has been done to bring you this latest version of the app. Enjoy.

We have finally added the possibility to export metadata and / or audio files!More precisely, users will now be able to:

Select any element such as albums, tracks, writers, publishers, tags etc. and generate a spreadsheet regrouping all of those elements’ metadata.

Select any elements associated to audio files such as albums and tracks and generate a zip containing those elements’ audio files.

In other words, users can now easily export their metadata in spreadsheets as well as their audio files in just a couple of clicks.The process to export metadata or audio files is simple: all a user needs to do is select its desired element, rights click, choose “Export” and then choose the desired export format.The Notification Center tells you when exports are being generated and when they are ready to be downloaded. To download them, users can either click on the link in the email Reprtoir sends them telling them their export is ready, or they can simply go into the Notification Center and click on the notification.

It is now possible to add your own unique tags in bulk inside of Reprtoir thanks to our spreadsheet system. This is accomplished by creating your desired tag categories in your account and then adding those categories as columns inside of your import spreadsheets.

It is now possible to delete artists from the Artist list as well as from an artist’s panel. You can only delete an artist if that artist is not already associated to another asset such as an album or a track.